NGO Another Way (Stichting
Bakens Verzet), 1018 AM
SELF-FINANCING,
ECOLOGICAL, SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
FOR
THE WORLD’S POOR.
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Edition 3: 05 February, 2014.
HOW THE WORLD’S POOR CAN IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF
LIFE AND MEET THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
PRACTICAL MONETARY
REFORM.
(Stichting Bakens Verzet has
endorsed the Earth Charter.)
A MODEL FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH CREATIVE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY
REDUCTION.
The Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated
development projects presented at this website provides simple, down-to-earth
practical solutions to poverty- and
development-related problems. It sets out step by step how the solutions are
put into effect. By following the steps, users can draft their own advanced ecological sustainable local integrated
development projects and apply for their seed financing. Social,
financial, productive and service structures are set up in a critical order of
sequence and carefully integrated with each other. That way, cooperative,
interest-free, inflation-free local economic
environments are formed in project areas. Local initiative and true
competition are then free to flourish there.
The Model itself is a project index. Each item in the index is linked to
a sample file. The Model is in the public domain and can be used by all free of
charge.
Click here for a 32-slide
Powerpoint presentation of a typical
integrated development project.
Click here to see an executive summary
which provides a short analysis of a typical integrated development project.
Click here to see
the Model itself, a standard project index.
Click here to see a full-year e-learning course at
post-masters level for the Diploma in Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) The course is available on-line
for use by all. Anyone interested can follow the full course free of charge.
The Diploma in Integrated Development ( Dip. Int. Dev.) itself is awarded only
to students following the course with tutor support, against payment for
tutorship on a costs-recovery basis. Diploma graduates qualify to lead
integrated development projects and to train others. Just reading the course
material provides full information on the concepts and methods the Model is
based on.
THERE’S A SPECIAL MENU FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
An international or national development organisation,
donor, or micro-credit institution.
A university, research institute or student.
A development aid professional (the work specially
benefits women! )
An individual who cares and wants to make a difference.
MORE ON SOME BASIC ISSUES COVERED BY THE MODEL FOR INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
Agriculture and food security in integrated development projects.
Credit crises. Solutions offered by integrated development
projects.
Ecology and conservation in integrated development
projects.
Education in integrated development projects.
Fight against corruption in integrated development
projects.
Financing integrated development projects using the CDM
mechanism.
Gender and women's rights in integrated development
projects.
Health aspects and integrated development projects.
Millennium Development Goals. How integrated
development projects solve them.
Water and sanitation in integrated development
projects.
Some Powerpoint
presentations:
Poverty, its causes, what is needed to eliminate it.
(Powerpoint presentation : 24 slides.)
Typical integrated development project. (Powerpoint
presentation : 32 slides.)
Project architecture for integrated development.
(Powerpoint presentation : 14 slides.)
Project structures for integrated development. (Powerpoint
presentation : 43 slides.)
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANS COST A FEW EUROCENTS
PER PERSON.
The Model makes the
drafting of fully detailed national or
regional integrated development plans to meet nearly all of the
Millennium goals quick, easy, and cheap. How quickly the plans are prepared
depends on the number of people (usually students or active members of
grass-roots NGOs) and the number of individual projects (about 20 for each
million inhabitants) involved. The maximum period for plan preparation is about
three months, the minimum period one month. Plans involving populations over
10.000.000 cost about 2.5 eurocents ( €
0.025) per person. Smaller plans involving up to 1.000.000 inhabitants
may cost up to 15 eurocents ( € 0.15) per person, depending on population
spread and the size of the project
areas.
National and regional
plans involve the drafting of individual project documentations under the Model
for each area with about 50.000 inhabitants in the country or region. Their
preparation has practical advantages. Authors of the individual project
documentations receive direct personal hands-on training on the application of
the principles behind the Model, so that they qualify to act as coordinators for
the projects they have drafted. Another advantage is that the financiers of the
plans, the costs of which vary from about
€ 100.000 to €
300.000 depending on the populations, get to know the local grass-roots
NGOs involved. Successful preparation of the national or regional plan should
make it easier for the same financiers to contribute to the cost of pilot
projects in the poorest areas covered by the plan.
CONVERSION OF TRADITIONAL PROJECT STRUCTURES INTO FULLY
SUSTAINABLE ONES.
Many existing development
projects have already failed or risk failure because they are not fully
sustainable over a longer term. This is often due to the lack of an appropriate
framework of enabling social, financial, and productive structures fully
covering on-going management and maintenance costs and long-term replacements
of capital goods.
The social,
financial, productive and service structures foreseen in the Model can be built around structures set up under
traditional projects to create cooperative, interest-free, inflation-free local economic environments in the project
areas. This way several thousand work opportunities
can be created in each project area and large amounts of on-going formal money
costs saved. On-going financial leakage
from project areas, typical of traditional development projects, is blocked.
The small amount of formal money reaching the project areas is retained and continually recycled there
WEBSITE DESIGN.
This website has been designed especially to
help professionals working under difficult conditions in developing countries.
Communications there are often expensive, and telephone lines and computer
equipment for internet connections slow. Web-pages with pop-ups and
audio-visual or moving images consume extra, costly, energy. Website texts are
therefore presented here on a plain background. First-line files are always
simple text files, to speed up navigation within the website. Photographs,
drawings, illustrations, charts and graphs can be viewed "on
demand".
Search engines rank this website as a leading resource on a wide range
of development-related issues.
View rankings using your
preferred search engine.
Money is not the key that opens the gates of the
market but the bolt that bars them."
Gesell, Silvio, The Natural Economic Order, revised English
edition, Peter Owen, London 1958, page 228.
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of
gold.”
William Jennings Bryan, Official Minutes
of the National Democratic Convention,
Chicago, Illinois, July 7-11, 1896, (Logansport, Indiana,
1896), 226–234.
“The
god they serve, the financial system, is a dying god.”
C.
Eisenstein, Occupy Wall Street: No Demand is Big Enough,
Reality Sandwich, 6th October, 2011.
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations, New York 7 September 2005.
“Where is the thicket ? Gone.
Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.”
Speech (as reported 30 years later) attributed to Si’ahl, ‘Chef Seattle’,
Seattle, 1854.
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